Units

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Sample subject outline - Summer. 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

In this unit you will learn about the theory and practice of one particular co-creative media production technique and community media movement, known as Digital Storytelling. In the process of developing your own theoretical knowledge and practical skills in Digital Storytelling you will extend your technological literacy through creative expression. You will learn about how to facilitate and research participatory knowledge creation practices such as co-creative media production in a variety of contexts, and using various methods including ethnographic action research. You will have theoretical and practical lessons in the use of Creative Commons licensing to manage Intellectual Property. In addition to creating your own Digital Story you will have the opportunity to either develop your own proposal for a Digital Storytelling workshop, or to participate in another Digital Storytelling workshop as a participant observer.

Aims

This unit aims to:
1. Develop your understanding of participatory culture and co-creative media by introducing you to the contexts and practices of Digital Storytelling
2. Provide you with skills in using computing technologies and applications for creative expression in the process of creating a Digital Story
3. Provide you with skills and opportunities to apply your theoretical and practical knowledge of Digital Storytelling in the process of EITHER developing your own Digital Storytelling workshop proposal OR participating in another Digital Storytelling workshop as a participant observer and part of a Creative Industries co-creative media research team
4. Provide you with the skills to develop and facilitate co-creative media projects.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:
1. Create a Digital Story and facilitate co-creative media practice
2. Apply knowledge of Digital Storytelling, co-creative media and participatory culture to the tasks of evaluating co-creative media practice and designing your own Digital Storytelling workshop
3. Use ethnographic and action research approaches and methods to evaluate, inform and improve professional practice
4. Understand and use Creative Commons licensing to manage intellectual property rights in co-creative media productions.

Content

This unit address content such as:
Digital Storytelling history and contexts; Approaches to Digital Storytelling; Case studies in Digital Storytelling, co-creative media and participatory culture; Ethnographic and action research approaches; Writing a Digital Story; Recording a Digital Story; Image capture for a Digital Story; Using Photoshop, Audacity, Windows Moviemaker (or similar applications); Intellectual Property and the Creative Commons; Propagating Digital Storytelling; Ethics of Digital Storytelling; Strategies for managing creative work.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

This unit may run either in intensive mode or in a traditional semester mode. Students from a range of cohorts may be enrolled in this unit. Typically, semester mode will involve a combination of lectures/seminars/tutorials/workshops. Intensive mode will generally commence with an introductory session and then be taught in an intensive mode. The program will consist of a Digital Storytelling Workshop and a complementary seminar program. It will conclude with a class screening of stories produced in the Workshop and reflective discussion and evaluation of the co-creative media production experience.

Assessment

LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.

Faculty Assessment Information
To access complete Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information please refer to the Blackboard site for this unit.FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during tutorials/seminars and discussions throughout the semester.

Assessment name: Portfolio
Description: (Summative and Formative) Portfolio comprising an Essay, Digital Story work and Digital Storytelling Project Proposal.

a) Essay - You will define digital storytelling and evaluate one or more uses or applications.

b) Digital Storytelling Project Proposal - You will develop your own proposal for a Digital Storytelling workshop/application OR you will generate field notes based on your involvement in another Digital Storytelling workshop as a participant observer (subject to availability).
a & b - weight: 60%

c) Digital Story - You will complete a 3 minute Digital Story of your own
c - weight: 40%
Relates to objectives: All
Weight: 100%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Throughout Semester

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

The workbook and computer laboratory tutorial notes are used to support learning in the Digital Storytelling Workshop. The seminar program and associated assessment tasks are support by a reading program. The following book is highly recommended and can be purchased through the QUT Bookshop:

J. Hartley and K. McWilliam (eds) (2009) Story Circle. Digital Storytelling Around the World. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.

Links to additional readings will be made available through the unit website or handouts.

Risk assessment statement

There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 28-Mar-2013